Building a Creative Workforce: Growth in Liberal Arts at Community Colleges in Making up for a National Decline in the Discipline

Autor/in	Guth, Douglas J.
Titel	Building a Creative Workforce: Growth in Liberal Arts at Community Colleges in Making up for a National Decline in the Discipline
Quelle	In: Community College Journal, 90 (2020) 3, S.23-26 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1067-1803
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Liberal Arts; College Curriculum; Labor Force Development; Associate Degrees; Humanities; New Jersey; Ohio (Cleveland); Arizona (Scottsdale); California (San Diego) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Arbeitskräftebestand; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften
Abstract	Despite declines in the number of liberal arts bachelor's degrees awarded by four-year colleges, the growth in liberal arts at community colleges has made up the difference, countering a national narrative that the field is in crisis. As designated by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, the liberal arts cover a range of college subjects, from modern and classical languages to philosophy to arts theory. Per Community College Research Center (CCRC) findings, about one-fifth of all community college courses are in humanities and liberal arts fields, with more than a quarter of every undergraduate degree composed of liberal arts coursework. In its study of liberal arts at two-year colleges, CCRC found the number of associate degrees in this area ballooned by 88 percent--from 218,000 to 410,000--between 2000 and 2015. The share of associate degrees in liberal arts fields increased from 38 percent to 41 percent over that time. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Association of Community Colleges. One Dupont Circle NW Suite 410, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-728-0200; Fax: 202-833-2467; Web site: https://www.aacc.nche.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01